#ate

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#fortune #given #good #good fortune #great

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#adding #always #chief #damn #end

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#dozen #finds #fish #full #memory

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#greatest #greatest thing #moving #much #thing

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#faith #god #greatest #man #understands

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. ↗

— John Holt

#advance #future #instead #know #knowledge

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. ↗

— John Holt

#attention #back #before #bring #child

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#do your best #others #right #treat #treated

I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#drink #haven #i #water #years